County leaders will spend additional funds for enhancements to planned bridges considered gateways into Forsyth County.
As work continues towards adding a bridge to the interchange of State Hwy 369 and Georgia 400, commissioners heard details about the request from County Manager Eric Johnson.
Johnson explained, "The idea here is to make the bridge at 369 a gateway, there's two things we've asked them (GDOT) to price for us. One is ashlar stamping which comes to $354,000."
The other expense would upgrading galvanized chain link fencing to black vinyl covered chain link fence with a net increase of $11,702.
Chief Financial Officer David Gruen explained the structure of the resolution for funding since it's a GDOT project and not a county asset.
"What we did was we went to our insurance premium trust fund, otherwise known as our engineering fund, and that revenue source," Gruen said. "We do have enough in a strong fund balance to say let's go ahead and use part of the fund balance for that to make this transfer to GDOT and that's the way we've structured it in your package."
Commissioners approved the additional funding unanimously.
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